It was not even 3 in the morning when the call came in. A young man was down on Interstate 395 northbound, just outside Norwich, Connecticut. By the time emergency crews got there and fought hard to bring him back, it was already too late. Dylan Chace Stamour, just 22 years old, was gone.
Firefighters with Norwich Firefighters Local 892 got the dispatch at around 2:58 a.m. on May 17, 2026. Reports were coming in of a pedestrian getting hit by a vehicle on I-395 northbound near Exit 11. That stretch of highway at that hour is no place for anyone on foot, and whatever brought Dylan out there that night, it ended in the worst possible way.
Connecticut State Police troopers were first on the scene. They did not wait around. They dropped to their knees right there on that dark stretch of interstate and started CPR on Dylan. When the Norwich firefighters arrived, they took over those lifesaving efforts and kept pushing. Everyone there was fighting for this young man’s life.
But it was not enough. Dylan was rushed to a nearby hospital, and not long after, doctors pronounced him dead from the injuries he suffered in that crash. A 22-year-old kid from Norwich, gone before the sun even came up on a Sunday morning.
While crews worked the scene and investigators pieced together what happened, authorities shut down the Route 82 on-ramp to I-395 northbound. That ramp stayed closed as troopers and investigators walked the roadway, documenting everything they could find. The kind of careful, methodical work that happens after something terrible and irreversible has already occurred.
Dylan Stamour had his whole life stretched out ahead of him. Twenty-two is so young — barely into adulthood, still figuring things out, still building something. And now his family and the people who loved him are left trying to make sense of a Sunday morning that changed everything forever. Norwich lost one of its own that night, and that loss sits heavy.
Connecticut State Police say the investigation into this fatal pedestrian crash is still ongoing. No additional details about the circumstances of the collision have been released yet. Answers may still be coming, but nothing that comes out of that investigation is going to bring Dylan Chace Stamour back home.
